You can’t speak honestly about the environment without speaking critically about this president. Bush is the worst environmental president in American history. In 3 1/2 years, his White House has promoted more than 400 major environmental rollbacks intended to eviscerate 35 years of environmental law. – Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Faith, a 4-year-old Rottweiler, phoned 911 when Leana Beasley fell out of her wheelchair and barked urgently into the receiver until a dispatcher sent help. Then the service dog unlocked the front door for the police officer.

We were watching the moon for the eclipse and noticed a bright light, high in the sky, just to the southeast or right side of the moon. Within 10-15 seconds time span it moved across the “top” of the moon to the north-northeast and stopped.

Bush administration lawyers are now attempting to overturn decades of legal precedence by claiming that under the Help America Vote Act only Attorney General John Ashcroft — and not individual voters – have a right to ask federal courts to enforce voting rights.

The Food and Drug Administration is withholding for political reasons documents that could help determine whether this year’s flu vaccine shortage was preventable, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., charged.

Investigative reporter Greg Palast exposes a secret document within the Republican Party in Florida that contains nearly 1,900 names and addresses of voters in the predominantly black and Democratic areas of Jacksonville. The so-called “caging list” could be used to block and harass African-American voters.

More than 100,000 civilians, most women & children, have probably died in Iraq as direct or indirect consequences of the March 2003 U.S. invasion, according to a study by a research team at Johns Hopkins University.

It all started January 16th, 1987 when police officer Glen Kazmar reported seeing a cluster of lights in the sky. Now the town claims to be the UFO capital of the world and is holding a UFO festival to prove it.

US Army sergeant William Webster, was just months from completing his 20-year military career when his unit was ordered to Iraq last autumn. He refused to fight in an “unjust war” and was sentenced 14 months in prison and had his salary and pension taken.

Even though no banned weapons were found and the US govt. admitted that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, 72% of Bush backers believe that Saddam did indeed have such weapons. Despite the fact that there was never any connection between Iraq and Al Queda, 75% of Bushites believe that Iraq was supporting Al Queda.

Peter Resta, a tweedy psychotherapist and 20-year Prince George’s County Community College psychology instructor, has never seen a space alien or a UFO. He’s never seen oxygen, either, but he believes all three exist.

Russia’s lower house of parliament ratified the Kyoto Protocol on Friday, putting the sweeping environmental pact firmly on the road to realization and giving Russia a hoped-for step forward toward joining the World Trade Organization.

EARLY THIS MONTH the federal government launched the latest crude offensive in its so-called war on terror. Titled the October Plan, the program called for “aggressive – even obvious – surveillance” of a wide range of individuals.

Nobody seized Indymedia’s servers, apparently. On the 7th October hosting company Rackspace ‘acted in compliance’ with a court order and two servers belonging to Indymedia were removed from Rackspace’s premises in London.

One thing is certain about coincidence. The phenomenon fascinates believers and skeptics alike. It’s a porthole into one of the most interesting philosophical questions we can ask: Are the events of our lives ultimately objective or subjective?

The national security adviser under the first President Bush said the current president acted contemptuously toward NATO and Europe and is inordinately influenced by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel.

Several prominent Norwegians have questioned the Nobel Committee for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Wangari Maathai. Why honor environmental activism in an era when war, terrorism and nuclear proliferation are even more urgent problems?

“Animal abuse” may not be listed on the curriculum at any of the colleges or universities around the country, but behind closed doors at many academic institutions, graduate students and faculty supervisors cause pain and suffering to animals through needless experiments.

More than 2,000 people opposing the war in Iraq, including teachers, lawyers and the father of an American beheaded by terrorists, are sending Iraqis personal photos with protest messages to showcase “what Americans are really like.”

Researchers at Harvard’s School of Public Health tracked more than 91,000 women and found those who drank about a soda a day piled on 19 pounds over eight years. They also increased their risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 83 percent.

A new book by an American University professor espouses a theory that Dwight Eisenhower made a secret trip to an Air Force base to meet two extraterrestrial aliens while on vacation in Palm Springs, Calif.

It seems that a large number of otherwise functioning human beings believe the NASA moon landings were a deception perpetrated by our government to make believe we had more military technology than the Soviets.

Whether it’s UFOs or lost underwater cities, Taiwan’s fringe scientific societies hope to make monkeys out of their doubters over the coming year and prove once and for all that the truth is really out here.

Nearly a quarter-century later, Marielitos are still looking for justice. They languish in American prisons in inhumane conditions and denied basic human rights, although many stand accused of no crime other than perhaps having dark hair and skin.

Democratic Dennis Kucinich demanded “the immediate removal and replacement of all military and non-military personnel who played any role whatsoever in the operation of the Abu Ghraib prison” near Baghdad where Iraqi detainees were allegedly tortured and abused.

“Peace on earth depends on our ability to secure our living environment. Maathai stands at the front of the fight to promote ecologically viable social, economic and cultural development in Kenya and in Africa.”

Peace Action, the nation’s largest peace and disarmament organization with over 100,000 members, today denounced the decision by House leadership to call a vote on U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel’s (D-NY) bill to re-institute the military draft.

George W. Bush is not the most eloquent speaker. Some would call him illiterate and incomprehensible, yet, his words are very persuasive to many people. Instead of thinking him an idiot for speaking in disjointed simplistic sentences the perception of many of those hearing him is that he is a confident and competent leader. How is he able to accomplish this when his words often make no sense?

The University of North Dakota (UND) Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) has successfully generated electricity from biomass with an exciting, cost-effective gasification technology in a diesel engine.

New rules that have reopened US waters to longline fishing for swordfish and tuna have been corrupted by faulty science and political influence, says a new study released today by the Sea Turtle Restoration Project.

Copy of the Federal lawsuit against the Bush Administration for their orchestration of the September 11th attacks and the subsequent attacks on civil liberties and sovereign nations perpetuated in the name of the fraudulent “War On Terror”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to ask parliament to ratify the Kyoto Protocol should belatedly allow the anti-global-warming treaty to come into force, but it’s far from saving the climate.

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